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'''Series 1, Episode 10:'''

'''Air date:''' 28 May, 2005\\
'''Production code:''' 1.10

-->''"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES!!"''

** "GO — TO — YOUR — ROOM!" Arguably lampshaded right after, with the Doctor saying he's glad it worked because "those would have been terrible last words".

** "GO TO YOUR ROOM!" Then the Doctor remarks about how bad those last words would have been.

'''Original air date:''' May 28, 2005

'''Production code:''' 1.10

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* AuthorAppeal: This episode is pretty much Creator/StevenMoffat's love letter to [[invoked]]{{shipping}}, and a manifesto on how he refuses to see the Doctor as asexual (as many fans, for some reason, do). It also marks the start of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV series being completely inclusive of LGBTQ culture (which the novels had already been since the late '90s).

* AwesomeButImpractical: Jack's flashy sonic blaster turns out to be this; it looks good on the surface and has all sorts of cool features, and leads both him and Rose to make some slightly snide comments about the Doctor's much-less impressive seeming sonic screwdriver. But it turns out that all those cool features run the battery out really fast and it's very quickly next to useless... unlike the Doctor's trusty sonic screwdriver. This is part of a direct comparison between Jack, who seems like a perfect sci-fi hero but quickly reveals himself to have feet of clay and to be completely out of his depth, and the Doctor, who seems a lot more eccentric and unusual but ultimately can get the job done.

-->'''Doctor:''' You just assume that I don't dance.
-->'''Rose:''' What, are you telling me you do dance?
-->'''Doctor:''' Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've '''''dahnced'''''.

--> '''The Doctor:''' What do you expect in a Chula medical transporter? Bandages? Cough drops? Rose?
--> '''Rose:''' I don't know.
--> '''The Doctor:''' Yes you do. *rubs his hands together*
--> '''Rose:''' [[ChekhovsGun Nanogenes!]]
--> '''The Doctor:''' It ''wasn't'' empty, Captain. There was enough nanogenes in there to rebuild a species.
--> '''Captain Jack:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh god...]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Yes, I am your mummy. I will ''always'' be your mummy.]]"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Yes, I am your mummy. I will ''always'' be your mummy."]]

* {{Blackmail}}: A homeowner catches Nancy stealing food and threatens her with the police. Nancy isn't cowed in the slightest, and imperiously demands that the homeowner give her some tools she needs, on the grounds that she knows it's ''him'', not his wife, who's been trading sexual favours for extra rations from the local butcher.

Did you ever think those two sentences would be together? No, nor did ''we!''

The one where EverybodyLives!

* BriefAccentImitation: The Doctor says the word "danced" in a posh Southern English accent when replying to Rose's question on whether he "dances":

* AnachronismStew: Jamie's voice is recorded on tape. While compact magnetic tape recorders were developed in Germany in the 1930s, the technology did not make its way to the rest of the world until after World War II. Wire recording was used by the BBC during this period, but recording gramophones, using wax discs as a medium, were more common. Moffat acknowledges this mistake in the DVDCommentary, but jokingly suggests that an ancestor of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart stole the machine from Germany to help with the war effort.

* AuthorAppeal: This episode is pretty much Creator/StevenMoffat's love letter to {{shipping}}, and a manifesto on how he refuses to see the Doctor as asexual (as many fans, for some reason, do). It also marks the start of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV series being completely inclusive of LGBTQ culture (which the novels had already been since the late '90s).